The Last of Us Part II

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  1. Upsidedowntiamo
    Jun 20, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I respect Naughty Dog vision, I was impressed with the game engine and the world design. I love all the flashback and interaction between Joel and Ellie, because these are the characters we've been through in the first game, we already built a connection with these two characters. But at the mid of the game when the game force us to play as Abby. I stopped playing, because I couldn't get through it. I get what the game try to do here, they want us to see things in different angle, put us in her shoes. But I really can't, all I can see is these people done horrible things to someone we love, at that point, I already checked out of the game, I couldn't listen to their dialogue. I think Naughty Dog expect too much of me, sorry, I cannot be that bigger person.… Expand
  2. Lilcloud
    Jun 20, 2020
    5
    Buena jugabilidad Excelentes graficos
    Pesimo desarrollo de la historia! No pedimos fanservice, solo el enfoque en los personajes principales, no fue necesario meter forzadamente a abby y su banda, te obligan a empatizar para lograr un mal final
  3. Jemapplecolas
    Jun 20, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. At the end credits now, first off all the people giving it 1/10 and 0/10 actually play the game lmao, it’s not that bad. No I am not a fan of Joel’s death, it feels so out of character for him to give his name out and trust strangers compared to the first game. Graphics are amazing and I really enjoyed the gameplay, voice acting was alright don’t believe people saying it was terrible when it wasn’t. How ever I did enjoy seeing abbys story arc surprise surprise(sorry I have an open mind). BUT when playing as Abby in the boss fight against Ellie, wtaf??!??! you can’t expect us to want to fight a character we love, so many time during the fight I wouldn’t press square during the QuickTime events because I didn’t want to do anything to Ellie, nor did I try to fight her, I got Abby shot multiple times before realising I have to fight her. Alright I could go on forever about what this game does right and wrong a lot more wrong but this was going to be a 7/10 for me, until the ending, the flashback scene was nice made my eyes tear up but then it cuts back and j ends w her walking off, are ye serious?!? Would have been way better if another 10-20 min was added to see the aftermath of her returning to dina, tommy, JJ and all that but no, hence the 5/10. Would I recommend this game? Ehit’s really upto u as a person to decide but personally I would say no. final verdict- DISAPPOINTED… Expand
  4. Ryuu34
    Jun 20, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Amazing graphics, fun combat and upgrades to previous features. The story however is but far the most terrible thing that came out of Naughty Dog. At a point i just wanted to put my controller down because of my disinterest in playing a particular character. Honestly i should have listen to my friends and waited for Ghost of Tsushima instead.… Expand
  5. TomAs21
    Jun 24, 2020
    5
    El juego tiene una jugabilidad buena, que evoluciono de su anterior entrega y los gráficos ni hablar. Pero a nivel trama no me gusta, Que muera Joel no es lo que molesta sino la forma, su muerte (mal escrita y forzada) tiene muchos huecos es como si no supieran la historia del 1.
    Al primer juego lo hacen grande sus personajes (Ellie y Joel) cosa que en esta segunda parte sus personajes te    El juego tiene una jugabilidad buena, que evoluciono de su anterior entrega y los gráficos ni hablar. Pero a nivel trama no me gusta, Que muera Joel no es lo que molesta sino la forma, su muerte (mal escrita y forzada) tiene muchos huecos es como si no supieran la historia del 1.
    Al primer juego lo hacen grande sus personajes (Ellie y Joel) cosa que en esta segunda parte sus personajes te generan nada, por eso los flashback son lo mejor del juego.
    Los motivos de Abby nadie los discute pero, que te quieran hacer empatizar con ella va con calzador teniendo que jugar medio juego con el único propósito de tenerle cariño que no se cumple (mal escrito y forzado). Con el tema de la inclusión no hay problema aunque abusaron un poco con el tema, no es lo que lo hace malo. Lo que lo hace malo es la historia que es un cliché el tema de la venganza, no hacia falta arruinar a un buen juego por algo tan básico y conocido.
    Como juego puede ser muy buen juego pero no como the last of us, si tanto querían hacer un juego con esa narrativa (que no es mala) pero para T.L.O.U queda chica, hubieran echo otro juego con otro nombre y personajes, pero jugaron con el nombre y populismo que obtuvo el primero para hacer esto que no quedo bien y es lo tanto molesta, porque the last of us fue es y será ampliamente superior al nivel narrativo que es lo que tanto lo hizo destacar al nombre.    … Expand
  6. KKaj24
    Jun 23, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Fantastic graphics and a very large game on the player's feelings tried to save the poor story.… Expand
  7. Frank0101
    Jul 1, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Great graphics.

    Poor storyline: you buy the game for the characters you love and end up with Joel being slaughtered in the first hours and with being forced to play (for hours) as his murder, a character you hate. The game tries hard to push you into liking Abby, but the result is instead just annoying. Had to force myself to reach the end, which is also totally disappointing since you don’t even get the revenge you wanted.

    Forced **** topics that strikes as exaggerated beyond any Suspension of disbelief. Almost all the main characters are women or asians, whic is fairly unrealistic. Even as the classical huge/strong human enemy they choose a giant fat woman.. it’s very rare to see two men talking with each other in the whole game. White males are killed and replaced with women and asian, the couple Joel + Ellie wasn’t woke enough so was replaced with Abby + Lev. Finally, not to leave any woke topic behind, we have gay characters, trans characters and so forth. Nothing against that in general, but here everything looks out of context and forced, it looks too much. Left Behind was also including such topics but not in this way and indeed got good ratings.    … Expand
  8. JC111414
    Jun 20, 2020
    5
    The Last of Us was a phenomenal game from start to finish. It had a good overarching story and a theme. However, The Last of Us Part II lack anything that was established in the first entry. Furthermore, the game makes you follow a strict timeline that leaves you asking more questions than getting answers. The first entry had a nig dilemma and theme, sometjing the sequel lacked. TheThe Last of Us was a phenomenal game from start to finish. It had a good overarching story and a theme. However, The Last of Us Part II lack anything that was established in the first entry. Furthermore, the game makes you follow a strict timeline that leaves you asking more questions than getting answers. The first entry had a nig dilemma and theme, sometjing the sequel lacked. The graphics and mechanics may be okay, but for a game that is based around story telling, it fails to deliver a good sequel, to an otherwise phenomenal masterpiece.… Expand
  9. mlknjh79
    Jun 20, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. as the legendary guitarist Kurt Cobain once said:
    what else should i say!?
    everyone is Gay!    … Expand
  10. MrWendigo22
    Jun 20, 2020
    5
    Para esto espere dese 2016???
  11. NukaColaClear
    Jun 20, 2020
    5
    Honestly, even with the problems this game has, if you are able to set aside your expectations of what you wanted from the game, there is actually something here worth enjoying.

    That being said, there was so much build-up and anticipation for this game (on top of it being released 7 years after the original) that there should have been much more care taken for what fans would want to    Honestly, even with the problems this game has, if you are able to set aside your expectations of what you wanted from the game, there is actually something here worth enjoying.

    That being said, there was so much build-up and anticipation for this game (on top of it being released 7 years after the original) that there should have been much more care taken for what fans would want to see and experience, as this franchise and it's story mean so much to a great number of people.

    Most would have preferred a story focusing more on characters of the first game, and this would have been the safe bet by Naughty Dog, but they chose to take the game in this direction, so we have to take the game for what it is.

    If you are able to look at the game the way it is presented to us, there is a good story underneath it all. The presentation of that story leaves much to be desired, but it is still possible to accept that story as it is, and see it for what it ends up being.    … Expand
  12. M4csx
    Jun 20, 2020
    5
    Great gaming and great graphics, the history is HORRIBLE. I give it a 5 just because the story. Bad game
  13. amrolzzz
    Jun 20, 2020
    5
    The graphics is amazing, but the story not so. Some scenes are very good and on point, but some other just got me turned off. I don't have any problem with political agenda, but I just can't relate, you wait for years and you got disappointed by the way they turn these characters after the part 1. The gameplay got too long and boring, I feel like they still use the same formula as halfThe graphics is amazing, but the story not so. Some scenes are very good and on point, but some other just got me turned off. I don't have any problem with political agenda, but I just can't relate, you wait for years and you got disappointed by the way they turn these characters after the part 1. The gameplay got too long and boring, I feel like they still use the same formula as half life.

    I actually like the moral dilemma that this game put into, It kinda disturb me, but this show how great the story in some parts. I guess all the bad reviews says that we don't like how the characters have become, it is not how we pictured in the first game.    … Expand
  14. yesss21
    Jun 20, 2020
    5
    I hope they bring out a dlc with a happy ending, and that it's to the real canon ellie deserves one and maybe it's not realistic, but it's nice for fans
  15. Trilltg
    Jul 4, 2020
    5
    The good: The graphics clearly pushed the industry forward, but I would argue that Death Stranding accomplished the same quality so I don't give it many points for being a tech demo.
    The meh: Gameplay is rehashed and polished from the first game but still feels dated. The forced political choices more interested in pushing a message than creating a good game.
    The bad: I'll break this    The good: The graphics clearly pushed the industry forward, but I would argue that Death Stranding accomplished the same quality so I don't give it many points for being a tech demo.
    The meh: Gameplay is rehashed and polished from the first game but still feels dated. The forced political choices more interested in pushing a message than creating a good game.
    The bad: I'll break this down as best I can but TLDR the story and characters fundamentally fail on nearly every aspect. So spoilers ahead.
    1. Lets talk about the elephant in the room, Abby kills Joel within the first few hours of gameplay due to his brothers frankly ridiculous mistake of sharing his full name. This is the decades through the apocalypse survivor who wouldn't be the slightest bit cautious when he knew people were looking for him... Evidently.
    2. Shifting perspectives, after Joel is killed we eventually get to play as Abby... for ten hours... What I like many others did was run the killer right into a clicker as I'm sure many others did. Why? Because I played through an entire game that I loved as the character that Abby unceremoniously murdered. I am made to feel over time that Joel was a bad guy for dismantling the Fireflies. But issues with that.
    1.1 If you listen through the first games recordings they had many other cases where they thought they could create a vaccine with. All of them were killed, none of them produced a vaccine, Ellie very well could have been killed for nothing.
    1.2 Worse yet, it is impossible to create a vaccine with that small of a team in that small of a facility, on a global scale it would take 1-10 years based purely on how lucky they got.
    1.3 And the final most important reason, I didn't care when I did it. I care about the little girl who Joel had been taking care of for the past couple dozen hours of my life. Do I care about the people who would just as readily shoot as help me, no.
    3. Really weird sex scene out of nowhere in the middle of the game while other Sony products are bashed for having 'sexy' outfits.
    4. The lazy attempt to make me understand Abby, the villain in my humble opinion, just by throwing me in their shoes. This is contrived to make the story complex and powerful, but instead becomes a lazy way to extend gameplay. When thinking about ways to do this better I thought of Horizon Zero Dawn, Helis's tent had the logs inside which was given a bit lazier than spreading them out to piece together over time, but it was still a way to understand someone who killed the father figure without empathizing with them. This doesn't do that, this says hey you know how Ellie is a rage ball of revenge, well here's another rage ball of revenge empathize with her over the one you spent the whole last game and the lions share of this game with.
    5. Finally the ending "Boss" fight. You play as Abby not Ellie, you are not allowed to get Abby killed. Abby almost kills Ellie's pregnant girlfriend and says good when she learns that fact. (I don't care that Ellie inadvertently killed her pregnant friend.) Then once again at the actual ending you track down Abby have her underwater about to die when suddenly, oh violence bad comes in and suddenly hey I know I've killed hundreds of people to get here but yeah lets let them go. Then they have the balls to have a cut scene with Joel just to make you really regret spending money on this tech demo written as a tumblr fanfiction trying to be deep but instead being shallow and infuriating.
    This isn't undertale, this isn't dishonored, and this isn't Detroit Become Human. This isn't a pacifist game going into the issues of violence. It's a revenge game and with all the set up to this point you can't just say violence bad and end it. Kill Abby give the player that catharsis, then give them the time to reflect on it after. It would make you wonder if the revenge was worth all the bodies left behind in a world already in an apocalypse, ponder if Joel would have wanted it, and whether you can live with the emptiness it leaves behind. But instead this game left me hollow, it broke my heart not that Joel died but that he died in such a stupid way. And it destroyed me to have to watch such a great studio as Naughty Dog who created some of my favorite games, burn because of terrible writing. It's the end of an era with this game and I hope it can regain glory but for now it looks like it will go down in a whimper and I'm so disappointed.    … Expand
  16. GuigaRocha
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    The game is fantastic, new view about the realistc cenario of the world Apocalypse of TLOU. Impressive the wonderful graphics really the details are the point.
  17. blersito
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    El juego no es tan malo como lo están poniendo, y no es cuestión de que Ellie sea lesbiana o que haya una escena de sexo gay. Tlou2 son gráficos bonitos y poco más. A las tres ejecuciones sigilosas te cansas de ellas ya que son siempre iguales, Dina no aporta NADA y el juego no para de intentar que sientas lástima en algunas situaciones por ella cuando no empatizas nada. Lo de Joel esEl juego no es tan malo como lo están poniendo, y no es cuestión de que Ellie sea lesbiana o que haya una escena de sexo gay. Tlou2 son gráficos bonitos y poco más. A las tres ejecuciones sigilosas te cansas de ellas ya que son siempre iguales, Dina no aporta NADA y el juego no para de intentar que sientas lástima en algunas situaciones por ella cuando no empatizas nada. Lo de Joel es directamente para dejar de jugar al juego inmediatamente y el final ya es de risa. Buenas escenas cinemáticas como era de esperar, escenarios cuidados y la banda sonora brutal, pero el combate y la IA de los enemigos es muy pobre, por no hablar de algún que otro bug y fallo de texturas, aunque nada destacable.… Expand
  18. Benzeok
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Honestly, this is the most confusing game I've ever played, not because the story is complicated or not clear, the game simply left me not knowing what to feel, I loved some parts of it but I absolutely hated a lot also, the game play is mildly fun but it's not a huge innovation from the first game, and it isn't very diverse, but the problem of this game is not the game play, is the **** up parts of the story. The game lets Abby get away with all that she did but the main character just loses everything and just makes you feel totally hopeless in the end it's not a fitting or fair ending for Ellie because it basically reduces everything you did to nothing, even if the lesson it tries to teach is that "revenge is bad" but it does so in a way that feels so void and stupid, the game constantly expects you to feel something for the people that **** murdered Joel, and it is so absurd, I found myself laughing whenever one of Abby's friends were killed (I lol so hard when Manny gets shot). The whole Part where you control Abby could be put in a different game or a Dlc that had no connection to the main story because its so pointless when it tries to make you care about characters that you will probably hate in the first hour of the story . And if that wasn't enough then the game expects you to fight ellie using a character that don't care about, I literally let myself die to ellie several times expecting that would just trigger the end of the game but it is simply hell bent in making ellie suffer. And as if that wasn't enough the game then robs you of the choice to see Ellie's revenge through and it just forces you to forgive the girl that killed Joel and expects you to be sad about it instead of furious, they couldn't even let us have a choice and it shoves into you the "moraly correct thing to do" as if we hadn't done all this horrible **** throughout the whole game. It would be better that we forget the story of this game ever happened and just imagine a better life for the characters we grew to love in the first game, Joel and Ellie deserved better.… Expand
  19. StayGold12
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The gane is good ,but the story was a big NO. I am not mad a Joel death because I understand but Joel dosen't trust ppl and in 38 sec he trust a strager? Really? What was that. In first 2 h of the game he dies. The game didn't have a point of revenge because you didn't get the revenge. And the end was **** And the writes and Neil ,you guys should be ashemed of yourself. 7 years for nothing in the end,thanks. You should make the next game the end and leave the game,because is broken enough… Expand
  20. dragonkaizer
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    Graphics were good the soundtrack was good good gameplay the bad was the very bad story and ends up ruining the franchise.
  21. Blackmur
    Jun 27, 2020
    5
    El juego gráficamente es sorprendente, el sonido te envuelve a cada instante, las mecánicas del juego son muy buenas y nuevas, pero es imposible disfrutar todo esto cuando la historia no es tan buena como debería ser, personajes mal desarrollados y muertes prematuras,.
  22. Fddszil
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    La jugabilidad esta bien, los gráficos son buenos que Ellie sea lesbiana eso ya se sabia desde el tlou 1, y no importa que ahora hayan hecho más énfasis en mostrar eso, pero la forma en que lo ven algunas personas como que están poniendo una ideología esta mal no es que estén poniendo una ideología lo único que no me gusto fue el desarrollo de la historia y el final no me gusto ya queLa jugabilidad esta bien, los gráficos son buenos que Ellie sea lesbiana eso ya se sabia desde el tlou 1, y no importa que ahora hayan hecho más énfasis en mostrar eso, pero la forma en que lo ven algunas personas como que están poniendo una ideología esta mal no es que estén poniendo una ideología lo único que no me gusto fue el desarrollo de la historia y el final no me gusto ya que después de recorrer ese largo camino para tomar venganza después de perder a muchos seres queridos, Ellie no culminar su venganza y que dina abby se haya salido con la suya además matando un personaje muy querido asesinando lo de una forma muy indigna además el desenlace de la historia no me gusto no sentí lo mismo como con el the last of us 1 me hubiera gustado mucho más, y me hubiera sentido mucho más satisfecho con Ellie cobrando venganza También me disgusto el hecho de que no tenga multijugador Pero me decepciono un juego que yo esperaba con ansias espere 7 años a que saliera una secuela de el que era sin dudas mi videojuego favorito y recibir esta historia con muchos huecos argumentales y un desenlace que dejo disgustado a muchos.
    Ojalá si sacan algún dlc o algo arreglen esto.    … Expand
  23. Bwnez0
    Apr 24, 2021
    5
    Not a bad game but by far the most disappointing one I’ve ever played. Writing is contrived and lazy full of plot holes and convenience, gameplay is serviceable but outdated and gets tedious due to the games run time with a lack of innovation and set pieces, making for pretty poor pacing. Characters are extremely unlikeable from both ends and make ridiculously unbelievable decisions whichNot a bad game but by far the most disappointing one I’ve ever played. Writing is contrived and lazy full of plot holes and convenience, gameplay is serviceable but outdated and gets tedious due to the games run time with a lack of innovation and set pieces, making for pretty poor pacing. Characters are extremely unlikeable from both ends and make ridiculously unbelievable decisions which will question your initial perception of characters from the first game. Highlights were flashbacks and could’ve been much better if they were arranged in a more cohesive order. A brave but poorly executed sequel. I’ll save you 25 hours and however much money by saying revenge is bad, because that’s really all this games narrative has to say along with other basic level messaging to lecture the player, rather than immerse them in a captivating, character-building story like the first game did so well. It’s no masterpiece, not even close.… Expand
  24. nathanfulthorpe
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    It looks great but the story is awful. I feel like I'm having SJW/LGBTQ rammed down my throat. I've no problem with either but am glad the leaks warned me ahead of purchase.

    I think the first game will forever hold a place in my heart and definetly feel let down by the second. This is certainly not the direction I would of liked to see the story go. I've rated it a 5 out of 10, a 5 for    It looks great but the story is awful. I feel like I'm having SJW/LGBTQ rammed down my throat. I've no problem with either but am glad the leaks warned me ahead of purchase.

    I think the first game will forever hold a place in my heart and definetly feel let down by the second. This is certainly not the direction I would of liked to see the story go.

    I've rated it a 5 out of 10, a 5 for the graphics but a 0 for the story. What a shame.    … Expand
  25. MadMatt88
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    Just not as good as the first one and story just has some characters you can’t invest in and also directions you just can’t understand. All in all just a huge letdown
  26. datdog
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Well.
    I’d give it a 0 if possible but honestly it is a game.
    It does play, but here we go. Sound - 7/10
    Stuff makes noise, nothing exciting. Voice acting is meh. Controls - 6/10
    Like the first game. But no real changes. Politics - 0/10
    Gotta have this. (Sarcasm)
    Ending - 2/10
    She got the ending she deserved I guess. Everyone doing such dumb choices deserve a dumb ending I guess. Story - 1/10
    It has one, that’s a mess. I’m not doing averages. I gave it a 5 on personal feelings. Otherwise it’s a 3. Save your money, YouTube it.    … Expand
  27. JGarz
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The gameplay gets evolved and improved on. It's fun in the sense that you want to improve on your skillset. The world is beautiful and the acting with its characters able to be seen as different. Now here's the painful truth. Naughty Dog wanted to give us a bittersweet story but the bitter leaves you a disgusting taste. Last of us 1 gave us hope and the idea that humans are complex. Part 2 just gives you a feeling of despair.… Expand
  28. krilin
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    Of course the leaks were not too accurate.
    I don't think this game has an agenda.
    Gameplay and visuals are superior.
    But Naughty dog ruined the story.
    The game should result in around 25 hours gameplay but for me it only lasted around 2 hours.
    Can't and won't play this game any further.
  29. HerIzInterneta
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    Привет! Я какой-то хер из интернета. Я никогда не играл в эту игру, не играл в первую часть, я вам больше скажу - у меня даже игровой приставки никогда не было. Почему я поставил 5/10? Ну айтипедия сказал, что игра шедевр, при этом я не доволен пропагандой ЛГБТ. 10/10 и 1/1 - среднее значение 5/10.Привет! Я какой-то хер из интернета. Я никогда не играл в эту игру, не играл в первую часть, я вам больше скажу - у меня даже игровой приставки никогда не было. Почему я поставил 5/10? Ну айтипедия сказал, что игра шедевр, при этом я не доволен пропагандой ЛГБТ. 10/10 и 1/1 - среднее значение 5/10.
  30. Devvo
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    Incredible game, never been so moved by a video game. Well worth the wait.
  31. Succowski
    Mar 30, 2023
    5
    the game of all time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  32. macska_usa
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    The storyline was rushed and poorly written, the gameplay experience being lackluster because of this.
  33. Nirodimos
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    the gameplay is great but the story is not. So 5 is a fair score. Game is not a 0.
  34. ivantgam
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    Not great, not terrible at all.
    The gameplay core isn't changed from the first game, but the new gameplay flow feels good.
  35. dejmove
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It's not bad just not good enough after 10/10 first part. I enjoyed the game but it didn't feel like yeah this is the best game I play so far. I don't mind playing for Abby even if a lot of players hate it but that ending rly? Its not the worst game I played but most expansive that I play and became such thrash in second part. So 5/10 for good graphics and ok gameplay but the **** story. Sorry, I really loved TLoU but this is waste of money :(… Expand
  36. yarita
    Jun 26, 2020
    5
    TLDR: GRAPHICS:9 GAMEPLAY:6 STORY:1
    I'm sorry but it doesnt make sense...like is joel that dumb after 30 years surviving? why do i have to play a character that i hate for half of the gameplay??? who did this? who tought was a good plan? and the ending? HELLO?!?! do i need a lesson about violence no solvin problems?
  37. Armandoo
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    I love this game too much things to do the history is not to bad and I like the zombie theme
  38. Smcfly125
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Flagship graphics of a dated console.
    Gameplay and combat visceral and you feel every impact.
    Poor story and character development.
    Some parts made me feel sick to the stomach.    … Expand
  39. Ahdnan
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Mejora en muchísimos aspectos de su predecesor pero a mi me ha resultado más fácil que el primer The Last of us, en cuanto a la historia...

    La parte de Abby es muy aburrida e innecesaria, habría sido más interesante utilizar a Tommy y que Abby hubiese sido para la expansión    … Expand
  40. ScantyTitan
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Jogo muito bem feito, a história está ótima, jogo deixou a história fluir e acabar do jeito certo, fico decepcionado com pessoas que acharam o jogo ruim pelo o que aconteceu com os personagens, nada dura para sempre inclusive em um apocalipse… Expand
  41. discoodancer
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    Heartbreaking game. Meaningless disgusting continuation of a wonderful story. I am crying now...
  42. Ralipho
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    A gameplay é bem boa, no entanto a história é zuada de mais, tudo no primeiro jogo parece ter sido em vão
  43. Gen3r4le
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. La storia non rispecchia secondo me il legame lo stile e i personaggi che abbiamo conosciuto nel primo capitolo ogni altro comparto tecnico è eccelso ma la storia narrata per un mio parere personale offende il primo capitolo, lo accetto ma bisogna ammettere che si poteva fare molto meglio dal punto di vista narrativo.… Expand
  44. exp626
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    Masterpiece. Brilliant. Magnificent. Awesome. Beautiful. Outstanding. Cool.
  45. DiamondJack
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    This game was perfect from start to finish. People criticizing it probably didn't even play it and are just talking because of what they think they've seen from the leaks.
  46. MkaySweet
    Aug 29, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I waited for this game more than 5 years. I played the first part maybe 14-15 times. It was the second game I ever pre-ordered. I only watched few trailers not to spoil the game too much. I spent 24h to finish the game, I think.

    Sooo... (I'll put some spoilers at the very end of the review to explain what I didn't like about this game. It's up to you to decide if you wanna read them. I'll also talk about relations between characters so there might be few minor spoilers down here. Just in case I warned you. Don't read it you haven't played The last of us 1 tho)

    Gameplay is fluid, fast, smooth and responsive. It's same as it used to be but improved. New infected and new organisations/cult are pretty damn neat. Graphics it's top notch, I mean, it's Naughty Dog.
    There are few moments in the story where Ellie is just a badass but sadly the pros end here.

    The game is simply bad, the characters aren't as they used to be. Of course that is normal but the story doesn't even try to show us how they changed due to what happened in the beginning. The first game built tension in an interesting and fascinating way. Ellie used to be... well a kid. She was curious at first, fascinated by how the world looks outside of the Boston QZ. Joel was basically a man who had no reason to live, didn't care about people. He was closed and cold. The first game shows perfectly how they changed. How Ellie was touched by what happened during the winter. How Joel opened up to her and that was simply beautiful.
    New characters aren't interesting at all. Most of them don't have time to shine and that's just disappointing.

    I'll just say that first half of the game is great. If you decide to buy it you'll understand why. It has a lot to do with the playable character.

    Before I finish this with review with big spoilers I just wanted to say that. yes. I did not expect that the characters hugged each other kissed and lived happily ever after. In the first game I expected Joel and Ellie to save the humanity but the ending we got was even better. It was a "good bad ending".
    Now the ending of the second game... It's just bad. Badly written.

    *Big spoilers ahead*

    So yea... Joel dies at the very beginning. They disrespected him like he was not important at all but I get that it was essential for Ellie to go after Abby.
    Now... Abby. I think this is the worst character in any game Naughty Dog has ever made. The problem is, you play as her like 65% of the game. She's not awful cause she killed Joel. She has no character. She's just poorly written. There was only 1 time when she said something that made me like her. I officially started to dislike her when Owen cheated on Mel with Abby and oh my god that sex scene... Just no. That wasn't funny at all.
    She was literally happy when she found out Dina was pregnant before she tried killing her. Thanks god for Lev. He and his sister along Dina were the only characters I actually liked and found interesting.
    Now comes the parts after Seattle. Tommy cared about Ellie almost as much as Joel did. And he just gets pissed at her cause she didn't keep her promise? That's not how Tommy would act.
    The ending is just awful. Ellie let's Abby go, we don't know if she finds Fireflies at the end. Ellie probably lost Dina and JJ.
    One thing that I liked at the end is Ellie realising how much she lost cause of vengeance. The scene where she couldn't play her guitar anymore.

    Some people think this game changed to pander to some people. I honestly don't think so. I support the LGBTQ+ community. I AM a part of it but trust me no one wanted this except the author of the game.
    I think they were more interested in designing Abby's arm muscles than developing an interesting plot and story. Seriously even if Ellie or Joel died at the end (let's just imagine it went this way) with good writing, well planned story, interesting plot and characters it could've worked. How many games are out there where the protagonist dies at the end or generally games with bad ending? A lot, and a lot of this games are considered good. Not every game needs a happy ending. But every games needs a good written ending.

    So, I think that's all. For huge fans like me, no I don't recommend this game. Watch it on youtube or wait til it's way cheaper like £15 and then try it.
    To be honest I'm personally not disappointed but heartbroken. The first game meant a lot to me. And I'm serious a lot. It's still my n.1 game of all times I'm just gonna either pretend the second part didn't happen or hope the third part will fix everything. If there's ever gonna be a third part...

    In the end, I respect people who like and dislike the game. Everyone has their own taste and a matter of being a good game and a bad one is simply subjective.    … Expand
  47. YanDere
    Jun 26, 2020
    5
    After finishing this game, all I can say is that it's just another AAA game.

    Graphics: Absolutely amazing if you've been living under a rock for the past 5 years. It's expected with today's technology for a high budget game. Mechanics: Just little improvement from the TLOU, jumping, and crawling, which has been around since the start of video games. Gameplay: I admit I got hooked    After finishing this game, all I can say is that it's just another AAA game.

    Graphics: Absolutely amazing if you've been living under a rock for the past 5 years. It's expected with today's technology for a high budget game.

    Mechanics: Just little improvement from the TLOU, jumping, and crawling, which has been around since the start of video games.

    Gameplay: I admit I got hooked with the guitar. Stealth is just a good experience, stabbing people on the back just gives another level of joy. Cause you can never do that in real life unless you're psychotic. The only bad thing, I can say for gameplay, the AI's are a little bit terrible, just a little bit.

    Storytelling: Nuh, I don't wanna talk about it. It depends on the gamer's perspective, whether they like the story or not. I won't force to your throat that I felt betrayed by this outing. It's your own appreciation of the game that matters. Whether you enjoyed it or not, it's yours to decide not mine.

    Conclusion:
    It's a fun game, but not a great game, in my perspective. It's overrated, in my opinion, and it's also over hated due to the expectation from the last game. It's playable and you can get a lot of good time from this game.

    PS:
    I immediately traded the game after I finished it.    … Expand
  48. suzakugrim
    Jun 23, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This review contains spoilers.Naughty Dog, have you been purchased by EA by chance?. What the heck!
    Has the progressist agenda finally got the best of you?.
    Positive: Good gameplay, nice action level, suspense and thrill.
    Negative: Did you even play TLOU 1?. Have you understood anything at all?. We wanted to see Joel, working with a mature , independant woman Ellie, looking to resolve or have a work around to the situation. We wanted to see Joel and Ellie caring each other as Stepdad and Daughter, and see how Ellie grew up being a really bad ass girl. But no, some whench in your team decided that Joel deserved a dishonorable death, the guy , which has endured the worst, does pitifully by a golf club strike in the head, without any chance to defend himself, just to easily justify Ellie' s story because feminist empowerment, or maybe was that that whench in your team as angry because of Tess Death. The fans deserves better after 7 years of wait. There you go, a five. And BTW, I don' t care Ellie is Lesbian and she smokes weed, we already knew that since I played Left behind and TLOU 1 in all difficulties,    … Expand
  49. Juliogrigilo
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    Sensacional, surreal, o melhor game de todos os tempos.
    Melhor gráfico entre todas as plataformas.
  50. ChroniclesOn
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    Let's start with the good.
    This game is beautiful. There are scenes that seem straight up from a big budget movie, and I think NaughtyDog always goes for this feel, and I think they accomplished that fully, again.
    Music, by itself lifts this game by 2 points at least. It's really good, and the ingame music isn't left behind, great work there too. Voice Actors, did an amazing job, kudos.    Let's start with the good.
    This game is beautiful. There are scenes that seem straight up from a big budget movie, and I think NaughtyDog always goes for this feel, and I think they accomplished that fully, again.
    Music, by itself lifts this game by 2 points at least. It's really good, and the ingame music isn't left behind, great work there too.
    Voice Actors, did an amazing job, kudos. Game mechanics were an improvement to the first game, and it felt seemless with the environment the interaction that you got as a player. Now the bad part, maybe the only bad thing of this whole game, that ruins it for most part of the players, the story. If you somehow are checking this comment before buying I'll make it spoiler free so you can decide by yourself.

    -The game uses shock factor, just for giving you a shock, it's a cheap horror movie trope that the horror industry itself is trying to move away.
    -There isn't the same feel of doing ambiguous choices for your characters as you did on the first one, it's more of a black and white story that tries to twist itself into something more
    -Characters from the first game are dumbed down, making choices that feel uncharacteristic of them. They were much sharper on the first game and it made you feel like you really were in with them in an apocalyptic world. It was like Walking Dead season 1-2 vs the later seasons.
    -One of the worst writing tropes that I hate that this game uses heavily, is by using sympathy points for one character instead of the other, like killing dogs vs loving dogs. That's 5th grade level writing.
    - Since I've finished the first game I always felt that the biggest drama would be about the big lie Joel tells Ellie in the end, that was almost an afterthought that happened.
    - I'm not going to keep going into the problems of the story since I want to make it spoiler free. It is not good, but some people like Dan Brown, so I don't know, you might enjoy it. But let's get some things straight this isn't a 10/10 game, no one who likes compelling stories and movies would ever give it 10/10. On the same note it isn't 1-2-3/10 because fans get pissed and are let down. Believe me, I am pretty depressed about it, but being objective, this game has everything to be an insane game that devolved into a subpar plot.

    TLDR: It's a badly written movie with great cinematography    … Expand
  51. Soakuna
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    Simplesmente uma obra que beira a perfeição no mundo dos games, bom desenvolvimento da história, com uma gameplay que não cansa, colocando a melhor experiência durante o jogo
  52. Grueti
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. the good:

    1. The gameplay: It has hardly changed from the first game. But I liked the gameplay in the first game and I like the gameplay in this game. Boss fights against bloaters and the ball were particularly fun. Although I preferred to fight infected people rather than people. The weapons were very cool. Especially the bow and crossbow.

    2. The graphics: You can see that it is a generation further than the first game.

    3. The music and the sound: just very good.

    4. The level design: The new big levels are really good. You have a lot of different ways and you can do a lot of exploration.

    5. The depiction of violence: I like the screams of death from the opponents and how the bodies are damaged by explosions or fire. Very well implemented.

    The bad:

    1. The gameplay: Stealth in this game is hardly possible. You are discovered much too quickly and all nearby enemies know immediately where you are. It is very easy to run away and then you are again in hiding mode, but the opponents no longer leave their alarm mode. The gunplay is very weak. It mainly works with the Shotgun, Scopes, Molotov Cocktailes and Pipe Bombs. All other weapons are far too imprecise. I wish I had scopeupgrades for my weapons earlier. This is almost the only way to hit something.

    2. The level design: I like to explore a level completely before I go to the next level. Unfortunately, it is not always shown which way the next level starts and you get no warning that you cannot go back to the last level. As a result, I was unable to finish exploring some levels. If entrances to levels are removed without good reason, immersion is extremely broken. One example is the WLF Hotel in Seattle. There is a blue dumpster on the fence. This is used to get over the fence and into the hotel. If you then come out of the hotel due to the story, you have to pass the fence again and the container has disappeared. You can't go back into the hotel.

    3. Why are there so many pieces of paper to find? Why do you have to read them yourself? Why don't you let the actors read these notes? Then it would be more like System Shock or Bioshock. Or you can find tapes that can be played in Ellis Walkman. The thousand pieces of paper that you can find and have to read yourself are pretty weak. Environmental storytelling can be done better.

    4. The safes: Why do I always have to enter the code for a safe or gate myself? Why doesn't the game automatically enter it as soon as you know the code. Once Dina entered a gate code and I wished I could kiss her for it. Something like that could have happened more often.

    5. The story: Where should I start? Absolutely disappointing. Not worthy of being a sequel to the first game. Not worthy of the title the last of us part 2. This game is not part 2. It does not continue the story from the first game. It tells a completely new story. It actually tells two stories in one game. Both stories feel more like spinoffs rather than being a coherent sequel. Trying to make me feel sorry for Ellie's opponents didn't work. Trying to create sympathy for Abby didn't work. As I said after the leaks, I don't want new playable characters. This is a fundamental no go for a sequel for the last of us. I wouldn't have accepted it if you played Joel's brother. I just want to play Ellie or Joel. The relationship between Ellie and Joel made the first game the masterpiece that it is. There is too little off it in Part 2 and only in Flashbacks. Ten hours after Joel was killed by Abby, the game restarts and you play the three days from Abby's perspective. It just doesn't work. The player is in the same mindset as Ellie. We hate her for killing Joel. Now we are forced to play as her. We then have to take action in the form of gameplay to ensure that she survives in order to continue the game. This is the opposite of what the player wants to do. If Naughty Dog's goal was for people to stop playing this game, they have achieved their goal.

    6. Characters: There are far too many characters. In addition, these are much too underdeveloped. I will remember Henry and Sam forever. But Mel, Manny, Isaac and Jordan are such extremely boring and forgetful characters to name just a few. Yara and Lev are introduced far too late. I got confused by the characters too. Owen reportedly attacked Danny. I can't assign a face to Danny. I thought they mean Jordan. But that was the guy with the cap that Ellie and Dina killed first in Seattle. This flood of characters only causes confusion and takes time away to characterize important characters.

    7. Factions: The factions are underdeveloped. Where does the WLF get all the people and equipment from? Who is the leader of the Seraphites? Why are the Seraphites violent if their prophetess was against violence?    … Expand
  53. Rickhouse99
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The Last of us 2 review (spoilers): I know i am no metacritic or imdb but i will do an honest review of the game and tell my opinions of the game.

    Now the disclaimer is , i haven't played the game but i have watched every video associated with it since the leaks surfaced and also have watched almost 10 hrs of gameplay, i also have a clear idea about how the story ends and what happens.

    So here i go...i will keep it short as reviews like skill up have done a much bettee job than me explaining.

    My initial problem with the leaks was the shw woke nature of the game but i trusted naughty dog and i was like maybe they'd make the story redeemable enough in some sense so people like me who hate agenda pushing might not go wow but others would infact niel druckman's initial propaganda was it would be a divisive game so a user rating of atleast 6 or 7 would be expected which would mean that the critic reviews might be bribed but atleast the people didn't hate it but that's not the case.

    Now before i dive in again, the story might be terrible but the graphics and mechanics feel great for atleast the first few hours of the game.

    2 main points about a revenge story is It should be short and it should fulfill the initial objective no matter what the cost.
    For ellie we see her lose everything and that could have worked without changing anything in the game, except the ending.
    Just kill abby , simple as that. Then it would really feel like , i have won but at what cost. Now there are revenge stories like punisher where people dont care about the costs and it works too.

    Abby wasn't likable at all, i thought one way they could have done it better would be her regretting why she did what she did throughout her entire journey and what she lost for that.

    So yes...the story sucks..but i still do have a respect for the art form that is gaming and all i can say alot of people worked hard on this so i will give it the credit for existing and being gorgeous.

    But then again , if you have mechanics of a 2013 game..and you're not an online multiplayer....you will bore people.

    Survival horror is boring..countless grinding is hated by most gamers so what keeps it going? The story and the characters. Some survival horror games like resident evil and evil within make it interesting and making it feel like you actually have to survive rather than taking out targets one by one

    What is it? Hitman post apocaĺypse and even that has a ton of mecahnics that make the game worth it...and one of the best in the stealth genre.

    25 hrs is not the time you should carry a story like this.

    So that is it

    My ratings would be

    Gameplay : 6/10
    Graphics : 10/10
    Story : 2/10 would be a 5 if they fixed the ending and made abby dead
    Characters : 4/10 even joel and tommy were out of character in this one, they were dumb and ellie was plain evil and so was abby , owen, lev and everyone around was ridiculous , dinah was better than the others and jesse was there for the diversity factor.

    Overall i can give it a 5.5 to a 6 if i am being generous on 10.

    Overall 5.7/10

    And a note , next time onwards , if they are willing to push propaganda and stuff atleast do it in an enviroment that favours it, not the post apocalypse , and definitely not in a way that makes it looked forced like it did.

    If you wanted to make a full fueled leftist propaganda game You could have gone for bigots destroyer : earth or some **** but not the last of us 2.
    Anyways...congratulations to naughty dog on getting the game out atleast..    … Expand
  54. kovar
    Jun 23, 2020
    5
    в игре все хороши в плане механики она шикарна но есть огромный минус это сюжет он слаб и не смог раскрыть то что хотел создатель
  55. Subbu1234
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    10/10 for gameplay, story is stupid,this is not a way to kill Joel or not a good ending
  56. chewblacka
    Jul 24, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Boring as hell! Had to force myself to finish the game. They did Joels character dirty and just a poorly written story. Still feels like the first game, nothing innovative. they force players to play the most boring and unlikable character Abby. other than that the graphics are beautiful and fun gamplay mechanics.… Expand
  57. Lilith_Sansquer
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Hablando del juego comprendiendo jugabilidad, mecánicas, gráficos y banda sonora, es una maravilla del desarrollo, pensando que esto es el ocaso de una generación me hace anhelar aún más el nacimiento de la siguiente

    Hablando de temas de historia, narrativa, respeto por la saga y jugadores fans de la misma, el juego es un insulto a todo lo que representa the last of us, la manera te idiota de matar a Joel, cuando toda la primera entrega adoctrinó a Ellie a no confiar en nadie, la marcada agenda política que toma el videojuego para dar a entender las mujeres unidas contra el patriarcado me parece nauseabundo, por eso 5 de 10, si no tuviese esa agenda el juego sería un 9 de 10    … Expand
  58. Pewpew68w
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The Last of Us Part 2 Is a visually beautiful game. The graphics are the best I have seen on PS4. The audio and sound effects are good. The musical score is decent. The game play is good. The writing is sub par. The acting is good. The story and organization of the way it was played out, ruined the game.

    Graphics: 10/10
    Audio/SE: 7/10
    Music: 5/10
    Game Play: 7/10
    Writing: 4/10
    Acting: 7/10
    Story: 3/10

    I will be reviewing the story of the game from here and it will contain MASSIVE SPOILERS. Naughty Dog did a few things in telling this story that were really good and I enjoyed:

    #1: They provided excellent motivation for Ellie to go on her rampage. The death of Joel was used very much like the death of Sarah. It was a traumatic event that drove story throughout the game.

    #2: The buildup was good. The search for the people responsible for Joel's death was satisfying. Seeing Ellie throw Nora into the nest of infected and the emotions that she went through before during and after beating her to death made the game feel gritty and showed the no turning back point that Ellie had come to.

    #3: The Flashbacks of Ellie and Joel were great. Seeing Ellie learn of and subsequently confront Joel about what happened at Saint Mary's provided a solid resolution to Part 1 without ruining its ending.

    Sadly, that is where my list of positives ends for The Last of Us Part 2 and my negatives begin:

    #1: In the chapter Seattle Day 3 (Infiltration) The Last of Us Part 2 had a chance to be a very good revenge story. Had this scene been done right it would have provided a climax to the revenge plot and began the conclusion of the story while setting up the chance to end a couple of the sub plots. Instead Abby kills Jessie then says a few meaningful words and aims the weapon at Ellie only to have the scene cut and take us back to day one where we now play the bad guy. Cutting this scene in half and sticking a 10 hour gap of playtime in the middle of it drains all of the energy from the first 10 hours of build up that the story just finished creating and then to top it all off I now have to play the villain and I am expected to empathize with her? At this point I switched the game to "very light" difficulty and sprinted through each encounter. I had no desire to play the character the game spent 10 hours convincing me to hate. This was one of the three breaking points of the story.

    #2: The 10 hours of Abby. I felt like I was grinding just to get back to the Fight between Ellie and Abby in the theater. There were things included in this section of the game that were unnecessary (the sex scene, love triangle, island invasion). The scenes weren't bad they just didn't really have a point.

    #3: The resolution of Ellie and Abby in the theater was terrible. Playing Abby in this scene felt bad. I get that it was trying to show that good guys and bad guys are a matter of perspective, but my perspective was from Ellie's side and Abby was the proverbial bad guy. The thing that bothered me most about this scene was when Abby had won the fight and was about to kill Dina then (almost) out of nowhere decided she wasn't going to then threatens Ellie and leaves. So Abby, a character that spent the last 4 years of her life trying to find Joel and traveled roughly a thousand miles to kill him, finds out that Ellie, Dina, Tommy and Jessie have systematically killed all of her closest friends in 3 days time, just decides not to kill her and let her live for a 2nd time (because it worked out so well for her the first time). This was story breaking point number two.

    #4: The last breaking part of the story was after it finally seemed over, it just kept going. Ellie and Dina back on the farm seemed like the game was ending until all of a sudden Tommy shows up and now all of a he is driven by revenge. Having his brother murdered and tortured while he was knocked out and helpless wasn't enough to fully drive him after Joel's killers by itself but now that he has been physically handicapped, he wants them to pay. This is the same character that was done with violence unless it was necessary to protect the people he loved in Part 1 and even in the beginning of Part 2. Then Ellie goes to Santa Barbara to kill Abby where she decides not to because she remembers Joel at the last second then lets Abby go. So, after chasing down the person that murdered her father figure and one of her best friends, she just decides all of a sudden that Joel's memory is better served by not killing Abby. So Ellie has now lost everything and didn't even get her revenge. The plot never has a pay off and leaves a bad taste in my mouth reminiscent of the ending to No Country for Old Men.

    Overall I give this game a 5. The flashbacks of Ellie and Joel were enough for me to be glad I played, but the ending and terrible character breaking decisions afterward make me wish I had stopped playing 12 hours in. Part 2 was a massive disappointment.    … Expand
  59. Manolosisa98
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I cant believe this game has this review bombing, it is completly incredible how well done a game could be… Expand
  60. KannaGumi
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    A game suffering from its wasted build up in the prior game.
    Gameplay : 7/10
    Trivialized stealth segments, but at least enjoyable in its execution despite its ease Music : 7/10 Score and OST is fitting for scenes but nothing particularly memorable and unique Story : 3/10 One of the major weak points in the game, a story that, without spoilers, is leading to a disappointing end that    A game suffering from its wasted build up in the prior game.
    Gameplay : 7/10
    Trivialized stealth segments, but at least enjoyable in its execution despite its ease
    Music : 7/10
    Score and OST is fitting for scenes but nothing particularly memorable and unique
    Story : 3/10
    One of the major weak points in the game, a story that, without spoilers, is leading to a disappointing end that feels unfulfilling, throwing away past games buildup in favor of a new itinerary and narrative that is wholly unsatisfying.
    Characters : 2/10
    With the hallmarks of decent characters, then turned into pointless and characterless reactions, moments where characters do things completely out of character, and problems with continuity between games
    Creativity : 4/10
    Attempted additions to game play and original story, but providing little to change the overall feel of the game    … Expand
  61. TheAudacity
    Jun 22, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. What's good about it:
    -One of the most amazing graphics in game I've ever seen. You can see where 100 mil went
    -Gameplay is decent
    -You can turn on slowmo. Kills look very good that way
    What's bad:
    Oh boy, there's a lot. Visual flows:
    -Faces during gameplay. They are scary. It's like those videos where characters are with maximum expression: their eyes are popping out, they are really sad or really angry. Very strange.
    -Invisible walls in the places where they shouldn't be. I can understand invisible walls in forests but not on top of a crane (You can jump of it but if you try to throw a bottle to the left or right it'll break and not fall).
    Gameplay:
    -Jump button is mostly useless. It's not that frequently used and jump animation is wonky.
    -You get stunned if you get shot. Maybe there is more challenge because of it but for me it's mostly annoying. The game forces you to play more careful, you can't really run straight into the enemy anymore, just hide and wait. At least you can run away from them.
    -It's incredibly boring. If you played first bioshock, it's kind of the same experience. You go from one location to another killing similar enemies, looting them and killing them again. There are some interesting upgrades, but not a lot. As you progress you find different types of guns same as in bioshock were potions. But all of that is not enough to make killing similar enemies over and over again any entertaining.
    -Stupid AI. You can enter journalist mode by just laying down. Human npc won't be able to see you at all. They can even walk on you. F U N
    -Notes. Maybe it's just me but making any sort of exposition by placing notes that couldn't have been written in the kind of circumstances they were written is lazy. They're not even that interesting, exposition could've been done without them.
    -Without arrows it's difficult to navigate.
    Story (Spoilers up ahead):
    Jesus Christ it's atrocious. This game feels as a work of someone who surrounded themselves in a bubble of people who have the same "mindset" and no one was dare to argue with them.
    First 3 hours of exposition are already boring but they are probably necessary. Well anyhow, there is Abby who wants to kill Joel because he killed her father, when trying to escape with Ellie from the hospital. It's unfortunately almost all the character of Abby. Oh, and she is also very strong. She kills Joel in the first couple of hours and Ellie than tries to get revenge on her. Before killing Joel, she gets in trouble with zombies but Joel saves her (And immediately says who he is to her even though Joel said himself that the only one you can trust is yourself. Maybe its the old age?) After that Abby kills Joel in front of Ellie and Neil Druckmann selfinsert spits on the corpse of Joel. That small detail is actually how gamers and maybe developers feel about the characters. They are irrelevant. Well anyhow, for some reason, developers decided that it'll be a good idea to play an empty villain character for a half of the game. Every ending where Abby dies automatically becomes a good one, because you don't care about her one bit. She is strong. She is powerful. She got her revenge. That's it. All the side characters are even more underdeveloped or extremely unlikeable. Abby has a boyfriend who cheats on his own pregnant wife with her. Pregnant wife is barely a character. Selfinsert Druckmann is Spanish (it's all the character development). Abby along the way meets little trans boy Lev (trans and lgbt characters are thrown in there just for a tick) and his sister who quitted the Scars - a cultist group which everyone considers an enemy. She for some reason decides to help them, because they saved her life, even though Joel did the same. (Of course, Joel killed her father, but these people are almost random and can potentially be a threat. It's all just to make Abby a little more likable). Abby and Lev lose a lot of friends along the way. But not only they are forgettable to the audience, they are forgettable to characters themselves. Lev loses his mom and sister but as soon as they are out of sight he immediately forgets about them. Not a single word is heard from him. Same thing with Abby's and Ellie's friends. And when Abby gets her very slight character development Ellie doesn't. All she thinks about is revenge. So its even disturbing to see her in the end sparing life of Abby. She killed your father and friends, even bit of your fingers and you won't do anything about it? You killed all those people along the way just to not do anything? Like one youtube comment said:" It's like if John Wick killed all the bad guys for his dog and then decided to adopt a cat".
    Thank you Druckmann, I understand now. Violence is bad. What a valuable lesson. Actually, even when npcs die others scream the names of those npcs you just killed. Well, I guess I feel sorry now.
    Overall there are no interesting characters and you dont sympathise with anyone.    … Expand
  62. Vontel
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I got the platinum trophy for The Last of Us, I’ll never do that for the The Last Of Us part 2, its a very simple reason why. This game is definitely more difficult than its predecessor and the reward at the end of the tunnel, for the increased difficulty is a giant middle finger. In the end you end up losing almost everything you care for and have no idea what becomes of the MC not even a little. There are a lot of punishing games but not as many feel this unrewarding. With the lost of multiplayer your only option is to watch Ellie lose everything and everyone she cares about over and over again. I’ve been waiting so long for this game and I’ve already finished it and collected 60% of the trophies. So what now do I replay this depressing story and watch all my favorite characters suffer literally to no end.
    Honestly that’s my only choice, im at a lost. I’m pretty much done with it 3 days in.    … Expand
  63. yardiknow
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game was a major disappointment. The first TLOU is easily one of the best games I've every played, so naturally when this game was announced it became my most hyped game for the next few years to come. Upon this games release I can honestly say that on the technical side of things, this is dang near a 10/10. Graphically the game is gorgeous, the animations are fantastic and the gameplay is good, although it really doesn't feel that much improved over the first game. However, the story of this game is awful. It feels like a cheap fan fiction that uses shock factor, and forced emotion(killing dogs, even a pregnant woman) for very cheap reactions. The whole idea of playing as Abby for almost half the game was ridiculously stupid. Especially after she brutally murders one of the all time great video game characters, not even 2 hours into the game. I found myself genuinely not caring about any of the new characters throughout the entire game. While I was really upset about Joel's death so early on in this game, I still tried to give it the benefit of the doubt, but the games story and often slow pacing disappointed me over and over and over again. I would NOT recommend buying this game.… Expand
  64. McWill
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I just finished the game, and to be honest it isn't what i expected. A lot of people throw garbage to the game, specially giving a solid 0, but it deserves better than that if we took as consideration, the gameplay, the graphics and some elements that made the first TLOU so epic. However i didn't understand why to go so far in the history to tell a history of revenge? (Which was never done by Ellie), just to let go Abby, after all she done to her.
    This is so upsetting. When i started playing this, i said "OH BOI" at least i was prepared to see a few characters die that we met in TLOU, but i didn't expect they kill Joel like trash, wich is one of the other things i'm upset, i tough Joel will be a playable character, or even a NPC in the game, but no, the only thing you sell was Joel diying as it was nothing.
    Ok... Despite of that, i was willing to keep playing because i was sooooo impatient to get my hands on Abby to forgive her...? I mean WTF, after that i tough "i was cheated".
    I must say the devs of the have my gratitude, the mechanics of the game are so buffed, and making the weapons and some objects with limited durations was a lot of challenge included that you always had to get inside of a building or look around to get some loot, anyways. I talked with my friends about the game and it was mixed opinions, but honestly i didn't believe them because no one of them have a PS4, so i lend the TLOU 2 to my cousin to play the game, and we feel them same, the worst part... He didn't even play the 1st TLOU, and said that the history was garbage. Some people told me, that i didn't understand the entire game, that i'm dumb as f**** so i got no idea of the "excelent masterpiece" that game was, but to be honest i think you don't have to understand something to ENJOY the game. So outside of the history the game was good, like a 5 o 6, but this game is one of those that you only have a history to tell, so if the entirely plot (Not only the final), is so bad tasting, what else is left to give? I hope the next year Naughty Dog says that this was ruse and the real TLOU 2 is still developing.
    From this i can conclude 3 things.
    1.- This isn't the real TLOU 2.
    2.- They give this bad game to make 3rd one "more interesting".
    3.- They planned to end all this ini the 1rst TLOU with and open ending, but due to the creative ideas, between writers they make tthis poor plot lack of consistency.    … Expand
  65. strdstccn
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    To keep it simple I give:

    VISUALS - 7/10 (improved mildly since predecessor but it's to be expected from a PS3-era game); GAMEPLAY - 5/10 (playable and fun but little changes from it's predecessor's gameplay experience); STORY - 5/10 (vastly dividing the community, the story may be innovative and genious or poorly written and taken into a questionable direction - which is my opinion);    To keep it simple I give:

    VISUALS - 7/10 (improved mildly since predecessor but it's to be expected from a PS3-era game);
    GAMEPLAY - 5/10 (playable and fun but little changes from it's predecessor's gameplay experience);
    STORY - 5/10 (vastly dividing the community, the story may be innovative and genious or poorly written and taken into a questionable direction - which is my opinion);
    CHARACTERS - 3/10 (controversial decisions and non-justified change on pace and goals from the main characters, making it hard to relate to them and thus even harder to enjoy their journey).    … Expand
  66. dSavage420
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. tlou2 is a horrible game. The gameplay is good and doesn’t change much compared to the first game. The graphics, music, and locations are great. The story on the other hand is a complete dumpster fire. The characters from the first game act out of character and make bad decisions. And worst of all they force you to play as Abby,(a character you don’t like) for like 1/3 of the game so you feel sympathy for her and it just doesn’t work. You’re forced to be around characters you don’t care about, it drags on for way too long, and ruins the game. There’s no motivation to desperately survive and keep this character you don’t like alive. You have to play as Abby and try to kill Ellie and Tommy which is just stupid. They could’ve ended the flashback once you saw the doctor die. It’s a petty and stupid revenge story with horrible pacing. Plus the ending is trash and unsatisfying. Ellie basically loses everything and the entire journey was all for nothing. I 100% understand the message and what Naughty Dog is trying to tell me, but that doesn’t mean it I like it, and it definitely wasn’t executed well.… Expand
  67. Chuslol
    Jul 15, 2020
    5
    the game play and the graphics are cool, but the history.... , the franchise is not about vengeance, naughty-dog could create another game about vengeance, but they ruined this franchise doing that.
  68. Nicolas_cavs
    Jun 28, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Esse jogo não é uma obra prima, e nem o pior jogo da história ate por que a gameplay e os graficos não deixam, O ponto mais fraco da história foi o jogo tentar humanizar os atos da abby, e entregar um final contraditório, fodasse se a ellie matou meio mundo, grávida, cachorro, a mensagem do jogo contradiz com a morte do joel, se vingança não é uma resposta, e sim PERDÃO, a morte do joel foi totalmente em contra partida disso, a abby está ERRADA, assim como a decisão da ellie no final do jogo é sem sentido nenhum.… Expand
  69. Danieldj1911
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    Amazing game , this game it's no made for snowflake "gamers" , amazing gameplay , graphics and history. 10/10
  70. Heavenskies
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I don't understand why everyone is praising the gameplay, is just like the first one. Nothing new copared with the e3 trailer. The first two hours of the game are boring just walking and talking with a girl who basically is the girlfriend of ellie. I didn't feel any strong conection between not like joels. Joel's death was rushed in the early game making this more awful to swallow. He's quick dead and poor focus to the history makes the character unimportant or a nobody. The game looks like a the walking dead episode with a super slow plot.… Expand
  71. jheretic
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    I enjoyed the story but the gameplay is still poor like the first game 25 hours of poor game play can lead you to hating it , but I'll still say I enjoyed the story .
  72. dr_vlat
    Jun 22, 2020
    5
    Nice.

    I enjoyed the graphics and physics of this game, but the story made me feel sick.
    It seems now we have to pay for all that SJW mess.

    10/10 for gfx, 10/10 for physics, 10/10 for audio, but 0/10 for story.
  73. Abraham1111x
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    No fue lo que esperaba, no tiene el corazón que vimos en el primer juego, esa conexión entre Joel y Ellie, los nuevos personajes simplemente no se sienten bien, no me interesa para nada y no es de relevancia la orientación sexual y las escenas lesbicas (totalmente innecesarias), pareciera que solo las pusieron para quedar bien con esa comunidad. Tardas un poco en acostumbrarte a losNo fue lo que esperaba, no tiene el corazón que vimos en el primer juego, esa conexión entre Joel y Ellie, los nuevos personajes simplemente no se sienten bien, no me interesa para nada y no es de relevancia la orientación sexual y las escenas lesbicas (totalmente innecesarias), pareciera que solo las pusieron para quedar bien con esa comunidad. Tardas un poco en acostumbrarte a los controles, se me hizo un poco complicado.… Expand
  74. Cooieson369
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    I can’t rate this game any higher. The gameplay is fine and the graphics were good. I feel like the music should get more love but the story was a dump. There was nothing very compelling in the story. The game is ok but does not live up to the hype of the first game. Disappointing
  75. Eduard02
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    Ma la gente cos'ha con questo gioco. Sinceramente per me è un capolavoro.....
  76. AsianUber
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    I put 13 hours into this game and I couldn't finish it here's my thoughts,
    Last of Us is my favorite game and this review is the best review you're gonna get because half of these people are just doing it because it's the trend. Rating this game below a five is a joke and you're just being ridiculous. Let's start with positives, The core game play of Last of Us 2 is phenomenally the    I put 13 hours into this game and I couldn't finish it here's my thoughts,
    Last of Us is my favorite game and this review is the best review you're gonna get because half of these people are just doing it because it's the trend. Rating this game below a five is a joke and you're just being ridiculous. Let's start with positives, The core game play of Last of Us 2 is phenomenally the developers make there areas with multiple options to conquer there tasks ahead. The developers in this game filled their world with lots of secrets for people who find themselves to either wonder in the vast world of Seattle or people who really like to explore and know naughty dog fills their worlds with items to find. Finding a guitar where elle plays a cover of take on me or finding secret safes where you would have to find clues to find the code made The Last of Us 2 feel rewarding in that aspect. You get to upgrade your guns and find new ones on your continuous journey with also upgrading your skills. Also, the games is very beautiful and feels polished and has it's lovable characters but that is all the positives for this game which is most of the game. Now the biggest negative is the story if you never played or cared for the first game like the critics this would be a 10/10 but for the Users the people who really loved this game seeing a sequel and it's story being so broken and not for filing made everyone very outraged. The Story of The Last of Us 2 isn't bad it's just how they did it. Using characters known by the community to be used for the plot is ok if you do it right but how they did it was disgraceful and just a punch in the face for the core fans. Also elle seems to had have a personality switch which felt off compared to the lovable goof she was in the first game but of course she was also a bad ass. Elle in this game feels like she's very self centered and kinda of a all about what she has to do. This bothered most people because they rushed through the game but if you took time in the game Elle seemed to be the same old Elle through separate optional dialogue. Another main problem is that people play these games for the relationship with Joel and Elle and Joel is not really seen or used in this game how we would've liked to see. My main problem with this game is abby, the problem I have with abby is that naughty dog makes her feel like a McDonalds rip off of elle and I HATE THAT, also after spending so much time going through the three days of Seattle with a character I enjoyed, I have to play as Abby and see her prospective of life and what she did. I just couldn't do it I hate abby's character and think she would've been better if we didn't have to play as her. Overall The Last of US 2 is great with it's core mechanics and if you don't care about story I'd give it a 10/10 I enjoyed the game mechanics that much and the vast world and all the secrets to find. Unfortunately I care about the story and it makes it a 5/10 because Playing as Abby in my opinion is just unbearably difficult and also the absence of the Joel and Elle duo, Which is why people bought and enjoyed the last one, Isn't really utilized here which just makes this game feel so underwhelming.    … Expand
  77. AlexHu
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    The game play intense at time with same playing formula from the first gameWith improved graphics. The story jump lines so much youLose track and it makes it hard to connect to any character at the end you don’t care about either Ellie or Abby, especially after Abby call Joule after he saved her life!
  78. Climbyourarms
    Jul 14, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. What a strange mix of emotions I have for this game. First off, unbelievable graphics. The settings were terrifying, but eventually became predictable. I literally hated this game at the 2 hour mark. Afterward I made Abby die at least 40 times and debated quitting because I really didn’t care about her or her story. It took sheer will to keep me going. And after playing for a while, the only thing that did was when Ellie and Tommy began showing up and I got to see how strong they both were.

    Abby, to me, is a Negan knockoff. Sure, she doesn’t run her mouth like him, but she’s a villain nonetheless that the writer crafted to make them likable later on in the story. I can go into more reasons why I think this but I don’t want to ramble on any more than I already plan to. A lot of the interactions with Abby felt forced and contrived. So many things were unnecessary. Her sympathy for Lev seemed pointless and provided nothing regarding character building. As the story progressed, sure, I learned about Lev, learned about his issues with his family. It all felt very cliche, a weak attempt to build conflict where there would otherwise be none. Perhaps the video game industry is still trying to figure out the best way to portray these characters, but If Lev was approached from a place of strength, rather than pity it would have done Lev’s character justice, and given the player a reason to be proud of Lev’s strength and what he’s going through. It’s my opinion that lots of “telling“ and not enough “showing” took place with this character, and that’s a shame, because there was lots of room for development there. Fighting through Lev’s town was pretty cool, though. Otherwise, I can’t blame ND for taking the direction they did with the ending. The reason for Ellie going after Abby and giving up her idyllic life with Dina and JJ felt laughable. I was literally saying out loud at 2am “WTF” are you thinking? But I followed Ellie back into the wild. I thoroughly enjoyed playing through the ending encounters. Lots of action. The group at the end were some messed up people, but we didn’t learn much about them. The ending fight seemed to be a last desperate attempt for closure. I didn’t want to fight Abby, but like Ellie, I didn’t want to let her just walk away, either. Also, I think the reason why Ellie let Abby go is different from others. When Abby bit Ellie’s fingers off, Ellie saw Joel for a split second. He was playing the guitar. We later see a heart wrenching scene and we know where it comes from. Playing guitar was Ellie’s last real connection to Joel, who was more of a father than anyone else, who loved her unconditionally, and supported her 100%. That vision reminded her maybe when the felt the pain of those bleeding stumps in that water. She is now truly empty. There is nothing left, no point. Ellie trying to play guitar with her missing fingers (and ND shamelessly forcing you to do it) is her closure. Losing what life she had is just something else to pile onto her misery. I was truly surprised when I saw her out the window walking away and not shooting herself. Either way... what a miserable ending for a character that I truly love. People will say it’s just a game, and so did Neil in a tweet. No, it’s not. ND knew what they created back in 2013. Something real that struck chords with so many players. The fact that ND decides to slap us in the face in this installment was their choice, and their right. Like many, many others, I enjoyed and hated this game at the same time.    … Expand
  79. Badcat5550
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    I'm not sure what to say honestly, I've been obsessed with this game for a long time, addicted, extremely thinking about it, watching the gameplay trailers over and over, waited 5 years.
    For this? The first 2 hours and already felt upset and frustrated to keep on playing?
    Especially the ending, you achieve nothing, just makes you feel hollow inside. I wish it had not have come to    I'm not sure what to say honestly, I've been obsessed with this game for a long time, addicted, extremely thinking about it, watching the gameplay trailers over and over, waited 5 years.
    For this? The first 2 hours and already felt upset and frustrated to keep on playing?
    Especially the ending, you achieve nothing, just makes you feel hollow inside.

    I wish it had not have come to this, I don't know why they butchered the story, they should have never done a sequel, I never felt this pissed at a game before without it having to do with dying or it being hard, it's just the story that did it.

    But anyway, the graphics where stunning and the gameplay is a better version from the first game but not that new.    … Expand
  80. jefersonlogan
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    most of the negative comments are about the story, besides not being what most were waiting for, the one that was presented was weak, elie's revenge journey was a bad joke with that ending ... abby's story was ridiculous , the whole history of the new factions was very poorly developed,...
    THIS GAME AT ANYTHING SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN MADE BY THE SAME PEOPLE WHO DID THE FIRST. tottaly    most of the negative comments are about the story, besides not being what most were waiting for, the one that was presented was weak, elie's revenge journey was a bad joke with that ending ... abby's story was ridiculous , the whole history of the new factions was very poorly developed,...
    THIS GAME AT ANYTHING SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN MADE BY THE SAME PEOPLE WHO DID THE FIRST. tottaly desappoited whith the naught dog.    … Expand
  81. Enshrouded
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    This a heart wrenching sequel that is vehemently set on destroying just about everything that people loved with the first game. What was initially a promising start, quickly devolves into a very grim and nihilistic narrative that is propped up by not only convenient plot devices, but driven by unrealistic actions from previously well established characters.

    The ending is probably one of    This a heart wrenching sequel that is vehemently set on destroying just about everything that people loved with the first game. What was initially a promising start, quickly devolves into a very grim and nihilistic narrative that is propped up by not only convenient plot devices, but driven by unrealistic actions from previously well established characters.

    The ending is probably one of the most anti-climactic and disappointing aspects of this entry, with no payoffs for the player for having to trudge through what is Nietzsche's wet dream, leaving behind what is a needlessly ambiguous and unfulfilling finale which completely invalidates almost everything had endured up until that point.

    Visually, the game is one of the best on the market, with gritty visuals that help bring the cold and desolate world of this series the life, and for this the game deserves its due credit. From a gameplay perspective, this entry has stayed largely static. There was nothing intrinsically wrong with the first game's combat, but it was nothing special and a bit bland though not bad. The sequel offers more of the same but with a few new additions to revamp the affair. It does still fulfil its role however as the series isn't renowned for any spectacular gameplay. The animations are fluid, the scavenging and crafting aspects are serviceable though the AI has still remained rather horrid despite whichever difficulty you set.

    Though, despite the narrative being severely compromised, it would be rather disingenuous to not acknowledge the fact that it's functional while gorgeous, and therefore not deserving of a completely horrible score, however this is a series that was previously lauded for its fantastic storytelling. It has failed to reach those heights again with its janky pacing, with an over reliance of intermittent flashbacks and expositional preaching through dialogue more aimed at the player themselves than between the characters.

    I would not recommend purchasing this game at all. If you're truly curious, then it would be prudent to hold out for a sale or a used copy. Otherwise, please; just satiate your curiosity of the game's narrative through playthroughs found online as the only thing worse than having to experience this entry as a die hard fan, is the stinging feeling of having wasted money on it.    … Expand
  82. alexroby97
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    Like a lot of others have said. It breaks my heart to write this but it really was quite disappointing. Killing Joel off was 100% the right thing to do and I think most people will agree. But not 1 hour into the game, to then be forced to play the character that killed him. The gameplay and graphics were outstanding, but the story itself has let a lot of people down which is a real shameLike a lot of others have said. It breaks my heart to write this but it really was quite disappointing. Killing Joel off was 100% the right thing to do and I think most people will agree. But not 1 hour into the game, to then be forced to play the character that killed him. The gameplay and graphics were outstanding, but the story itself has let a lot of people down which is a real shame after the long wait. The trailers which were nothing similar to the game made everybody’s expectations so much different. Overall it was a really good play-through, but the story has destroyed the game. I wish it didn’t have to end like it did, but I’m sorry Naughty Dog, you really have let us down.… Expand
  83. Bolobols
    Jun 23, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Personally I do not understand the reviews on both sides, certainly the game is beautiful and that is undeniable, the gameplay has not changed much but it was already good in the previous opus. The music is perfect one of the best sond tracks I've ever listened to and I thank Santaolalla for that.

    But all that brings us to the scenario, the story is the heart of the game, for me will never be as good as the first onebut it certainly does not deserve all that hate.

    Naughty dog ​​took a very risky direction by killing Joel from the start of the game, I think it was a very bad idea knowing the community's love for this character.
    I'm not saying it was a bad idea to kill Joel, I'm just saying it could have been done better.

    And it was also I think a bad idea to base all the marketing on an adventure of Joel and Ellie when in the game certain passages of the trailers have certain swichted ofcharacter and changed models

    (not cool NDl.)

    So no, the game does not deserve 0/10 and no it does not deserve to be called a masterpiece

    I think 5 / 10 is an appropriate rating.    … Expand
  84. alexsandra93
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    Best game ever made. Masterpiece in writing. It’s a sad story but my favorite game nonetheless.
  85. Yeezyk
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    Best game i ever played! I never saw that live experience in game. I bought on premier. I advice to all of you.
  86. Petrica
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This has to be the most disappointing game i have ever played. The story is incredibly generic and the way it's structured makes it so much worse, and don't even get me started on the ending. The only things that make this game worth playing are the graphics and the environments. The game play has not changed at all. I feel so bad for all the developers that poured their heart and soul into this game, only to have it dragged down by **** writing and dialogue.… Expand
  87. jcleegaming
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    Gameplay is decent. Dodging mechanic is pretty fun. The story, on the other hand, is one of the worst things I have ever seen/played. Completely undermines why i loved the characters of the original. It’s nowhere close to a 10/10 game but it’s not a 0/10 either.
  88. GrimoireRubrum
    Jun 23, 2020
    5
    Not bad gameplay-wise, a bit repetitive, stealth gets old and not so effective as the straight-forward run-and-gunning everything. Graphics, sound and overall atmosphere are the best parts about this game. The story... Is bad. Characters lack of chemical, back-story and have questionable motivations to their actions. Ending is so surreal, i can't even explain my feelings... I hope thatNot bad gameplay-wise, a bit repetitive, stealth gets old and not so effective as the straight-forward run-and-gunning everything. Graphics, sound and overall atmosphere are the best parts about this game. The story... Is bad. Characters lack of chemical, back-story and have questionable motivations to their actions. Ending is so surreal, i can't even explain my feelings... I hope that this is the last game for the franchise.… Expand
  89. Hermeline
    Sep 29, 2020
    5
    The story is the heart of a videogame like this, and it just died. I feel like they wanted to defy what we expected and that's totally fine, but there must be a reward behind. Something that makes us feel that everything was worth it. Here that doesn't happen; in fact, it feels like the game punishes you for playing it.
  90. R4M5ON
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    Confieso que no esperaba mucho del juego asi que no me desepciono tanto. Las primeras 3 horas la historia es bastante interesesante y te deja con ganas de saner que continua.
    Pero como pasa el tiempo se vuelve repetitivo el gameplay: matar grupo de infectados, matar grupo de humanos, matar infectados, etc.
    considero que si eres fan de hueso colorado del primer juego sin dudas este te    Confieso que no esperaba mucho del juego asi que no me desepciono tanto. Las primeras 3 horas la historia es bastante interesesante y te deja con ganas de saner que continua.
    Pero como pasa el tiempo se vuelve repetitivo el gameplay: matar grupo de infectados, matar grupo de humanos, matar infectados, etc.
    considero que si eres fan de hueso colorado del primer juego sin dudas este te encantara, pero si no tocaste el primero te dejara bastantes dudas.
    Juego regular    … Expand
  91. Tubsman
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    There is absolutely NO issue with the graphics. It’s gorgeous and they truly did a fantastic job. The gameplay is kind of the same as the first game, but there are some improvements. The real problem with the game is definitely the story. The story is soo bad and I truly can’t understand how anyone thought this was a passable story. None of the new characters are interesting and they do aThere is absolutely NO issue with the graphics. It’s gorgeous and they truly did a fantastic job. The gameplay is kind of the same as the first game, but there are some improvements. The real problem with the game is definitely the story. The story is soo bad and I truly can’t understand how anyone thought this was a passable story. None of the new characters are interesting and they do a terrible job of making us care about them. I am being a little bit picky with this one, but almost all the women in the game are ugly. I don’t know why they did this, but it’s almost laughable.… Expand
  92. CM96
    Jun 22, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. After finishing the game last night after 25 or so hours , my conclusion is that the world of the last of us created in this game is second to none, the graphics and visuals are most likely the best we will see in this console generation and the developers should at least pride themselves for knowing that, on their side, they created a game that improves on part one in every single way.... but then there’s the story. I knew about some of the leaks coming into the game, but I was determined to beleive that a full games worth of context would let me gauge my own opinion and hope it would be a positive one... but I’m sad to say that I beleive our beloved characters were sacrificed, to enforce the themes of hate and revenge and how it ultimately will lead to your own demise, forcing the characters to make severely uncharacteristic throughout, so it can find it’s way to force this message down your throat. I feel like their were elements of the story, mostly the flashbacks, that were genuinely beautiful to watch, so I can’t help but think that they had the ingredients to make a serviceable part two, but instead chose to further clamp down on its heavy message, sacrificing characters logic from the first game and force you to watch all of your favourite characters steadily decline to the point where there is nothing left, and by the games credits, I felt numb knowing that Ellie ultimately leaves with nothing... even her memory of Joel and the legacy she could have carries on, while also knowing that the antagonist gets to sail away with a renewed sense of hope and purpose in finding her community again. In a way I feel attacked for loving these characters, and it’s like I’m being punished for it. In conclusion, if your favourite part about this franchise is Joel and Ellie, then although this game is incredibly beautiful with a moody, second to none atmosphere.... you will end up with your heart broken knowing where their Stories end up ... and mislead by the fact that you play as the antagonist for literally half the game. I think I’m going to take the good parts of this game and theorise my own ending that the characters actually deserve to have.… Expand
  93. Knifebomb
    Jun 24, 2020
    5
    Graphically this game is quite impressive at times , it looks good and runs well enough , but unfortunetly for fans of the first game this is about all it has going for it . How does a developer go from creating a masterpiece like the first game to peddling out this trash 7 years later? Were you fan of the characters of the first game? Did you enjoy the story and character development?Graphically this game is quite impressive at times , it looks good and runs well enough , but unfortunetly for fans of the first game this is about all it has going for it . How does a developer go from creating a masterpiece like the first game to peddling out this trash 7 years later? Were you fan of the characters of the first game? Did you enjoy the story and character development? Well get **cked because you aint gonna get none of that here . Boring uninteresting characters . Stupid plot . And really? You really gonna do our boy Joel dirty like that ? What a huge disappointment . Will be very wary of any naughty dog projects in the future. Oh and the voice acting was pretty good .… Expand
  94. DrRocketsurgeon
    Jun 25, 2020
    5
    The strength and weakness of this game is it's story and how it goes about telling it. The slave brains who hate it because of the spoiler that I am sure everyone knows, the early death. They are giving the low grade because of that, and how significant the game has changed.

    It is more than just a game, it is a very immersive game with lots of character building. That is also the    The strength and weakness of this game is it's story and how it goes about telling it. The slave brains who hate it because of the spoiler that I am sure everyone knows, the early death. They are giving the low grade because of that, and how significant the game has changed.

    It is more than just a game, it is a very immersive game with lots of character building. That is also the downfall. It isn't like the first, it is rarely run and gun, you spend the majority of the time crouched and looting, then to all of the sudden be dropped into a situation where you have been careful until the developers make you go through some hole in the wall or down an embankment where you have no place to return and then thrown into a fight where most of your resources you painstakingly gathered for is now gone. Secondly, bring your phone because this game is cut scene to death, so much so that you have to take part in playable cut screens where, if you don't care to get to know the characters and just want to finish, this is frustrating and annoying. Downside is, this is how you care about the characters, and if you don't then you miss the entire point of the game.

    Plus side, controls are great, new infected are great, the ai is a bit smarter when it comes to chasing you down but dumb as a brick when they find a body and you are nearby. The environments are astonishing, one of the best out there, small things you might miss with sound from the tv not headphones and you will miss, worth investing in headphones for that reason.

    In the end, the story basically tries to tell you an eye for an eye leaves the world blind. If life gives you a second chance don't waste it. The apocalypse, no one is safe, not even your hero because in the end, everyone dies. The end though being, for the characters, do you want to spend your time seeking revenge when in the end no one wins, or move on with your life to make the best of it.

    I will and do replay part 1, I will not replay part 2 simply because of the time invested in cut scenes. If you want a cookie cutter of part 1 skip, if you want to enjoy a story, a slow long drag you feet story, then this is the one for you.    … Expand
  95. gagarin_y86
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Сценарный провал. Почти вся линия с Эбби чушь. Зачем ей спасать "шрамов"? Ради чего? Например: Пусть Оуэн не просто прятался, но и был бы ранен. Эбби узнала это, взяла аптечку и пошла в океанариум. По дороге её взяли в плен "шрамы" (забрали все припасы, включая аптечку). Потом, та же сцена встречи с Ярой и Левом. Они её спасли. Отбивались от зараженных. Но Эбби бросила их в опасный момент. Пришла к Оуэну. У него ранение в руку. Он говорит, что: "Это ерунда". Секс... Проснулась, почувствовала вину, что бросила детей. Пошла их искать, потому что идти не далеко и не опасно. Нашла. После перепалки с Левом, уговорила их пойти в океанариум. Вернувшись к Оуэну, увидела, что у него воспалилась рана. Решила идти в больницу за аптечкой, чтобы спасти любимого, а не Яру. Идут с Левом в больницу (Лев спасает сестру, а Эбби Оуэна). Во время пути они вынуждены помогать друг другу, чтобы выжить. Лев несколько раз спасает Эбби жизнь, а так же Лев оказывается хорошим «парнем». Возвращаются. Операцию делают и Оуэну и Яре. Яра и Оуэн до этого несколько раз ссорятся, а после операции Оуэн шутит, что они не такие уж разные (Оба теперь без руки). Лев узнает о готовящемся нападении на остров и сбегает, чтобы спасти мать. Яра и Эбби отправляются за ним в погоню. Эбби говорит, что не пойдет на остров и будет ждать в лодке, но приплыв на остров все же идет за Ярой. Находят Лева. Он дома, забился в угол и плачет. Мать повесилась. Оставила записку, что не может вынести позор из-за такой дочери. Лев винит в этом себя. Бегут с острова. Встречают одного "пса". Эбби случайно убивает его, защищая Лева. Это видит Айзек и еще несколько "псов". Стреляют в Яру. Эбби говорит, что она не предавала Айзека и все вышло случайно. Айзек кидает ей нож и говорит, чтобы она доказала свою преданность убив Лева. Эбби отказывается. Яра стреляет в Айзека. Эбби и Лев сбегают с острова, убивая всех и «псов» и «шрамов» на пути. Возвращаются в океанариум. Находят трупы Оуэна и Мел. Эбби идет мстить, Лев идет за ней, но говорит слова из их религии, что месть не приносит облегчения и все такое. Когда Эбби приставляет нож к горлу Дины, а Элли говорит, что та беременна, Эбби говорит, что ей насрать и Мел тоже была беременна. Элли из последних сил кидается на Эбби и Эбби вырубает её ударом тыльника ножа по голове. Эбби подбирает пистолет и направляет на Элли. Лев говорит, что беременная не выживет одна и одним выстрелом Эбби убьет троих (Элли, Дину и ребенка). Эбби их пощадила. Элли не знает, почему Эбби их не убила. Она была без сознания, как и Дина. Когда Тонни уговаривает Элли поехать в Калифорнию и отомстить, Дина возражает, что Эбби их не убила, на что Тонни врет, что это он спугнул её и Лева. И так далее... Можно было добавит логики в сценарий, но, увы. Вторая часть, скорее всего, похоронила серию...… Expand
  96. Sebass2399
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It is beautiful and everything that I have been waiting for, for all of these years! When the Characters first switched I was dumbfounded. After playing all the way through I understood the need. It was well worth the wait and I can't wait to start it over! Well done Naughty Dog, very well done!… Expand
  97. Dziegiel06
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    Oh man... It is so hard. Im sad right now. Why this ending needs to be like that. Why they cant change it or something...
  98. LuigiTheLord
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Mucha gente lo dice porque es cierto, la historia es MALA, como puede ser que de una historia con tanto potencial, algo que esperamos por tanto tiempo, y nos hacen jugar con un mal personaje la segunda mitad del juego, pero no todo es malo, el incluir nuevas arnas, el de nuevas etapas de la infección y el infectado gigante de la zona cero lo hacen un gran juego, pero tener que luchar contra Ellie, una simple elección de con quien luchar haría mucho mejor la pemea, el juego es una combinacion de alyos y bajos, por lo que 5 para mi es lo justo, no es malo, pero no cumple con la expectativa… Expand
  99. JunglerFault
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game is astonishing in every gameplay point imaginable to us players.
    But it doesnt come without a cost, unfortunately the reveal trailer was a let down since it was false advertisement on Joel's behalf, feel betrayed by it , and a huge letdown , by the plot itself if it was introduced in maybe a different way , its amazing , i liked the ending ,it showed supperiority, after all Joel's Killer was not that different herself from Joel. its a review on the 5th note cause the game is the peak of what a ps4 game could ever hope to achieve. #JusticeForJoel    … Expand
  100. MustafaCaglar
    Jun 21, 2020
    5
    Bad story Bad story Bad story Bad storyBad story Bad story Bad story Bad story Bad storyBad story Bad story Bad story Bad story Bad storyBad story
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  1. GameMAG
    Sep 13, 2020
    90
    The Last of Us Part II is the high point of the PlayStation 4. The plot is controversial, but the game is the incredibly addictive adventure of Ellie, from which it is impossible to pull away from the opening and to the very end.
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  2. PLAY! Zine
    Sep 5, 2020
    93
    Not everyone is going to enjoy the motives of The Last of Us Part II. But if you try and manage to accept the subliminal and not so subtle messages as a fact that the world has gone awry and that people have the need to have somewhere or someone to belong to as their own way out, then... You will witness the boundaries of gaming expand. You will witness a true masterpiece.
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  3. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Sep 3, 2020
    75
    If you loved the original for its great characters and well-paced story – stay away from this game. However, if you’re aching to sink into the depths of depression, or just want to cut some throats and burn some zombies – Part II will deliver. [Issue#247, p.72]
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